#muzot

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Château de Muzot sur Sierre (Valais, Switzerland)

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Muzot Castle (Switzerland). The Duino Elegies were written and completed in the room behind the double window in February 1922.

Photo from the book by Maurice Zermatten, Les années valaisannes de Rilke, Oscar Amacker Éditeur, Sierre (1951).

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Rainer Maria Rilke in the garden at Muzot, a rare picture from the early 1920s.

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Rainer Maria Rilke at Muzot. Another picture says the scene was settled in the orchards at Gut Böckel (Westphalia) in the summer of 1917.

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‘Even for our grandparents a house, a well, a familiar tower, their very clothes, their coat: were infinitely more, infinitely more intimate; almost everything a vessel in which they found the human and preserved and added the human to it.’

- Rilke in the Letters from Muzot (1925)

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Original photograph of Rainer Maria Rilke, inscribed to André Gide, from Château de Muzot-sur-Sierre, a few months before he died: “To my dear Gide with my best regards and most sincere gratitude, Muzot, July 11th, 1926”.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Letter to Nanny Wunderly-Wolkart & a sketch of castle Muzot where he used to live : ’ … et c'est peut-être mon chateau en Suisse, peut-être ! ’

Front view of Muzot Castle. Pen and ink drawing by Niklaus Stoecklin, 1963.

Behind the double window (on the left) is the dining room, behind the arched doorway (on the right), a boudoir. On the floor above (on the left) are a study and a library, (on the right) Rilke’s bedroom. On the top, behind the narrow windows, are two guest rooms.

Muzot Castle, Rilke’s dining room. Pen and ink  drawing by Niklaus Stoecklin, 1952.

Muzot Castle, left: the old chapel, right: Rilke’s bedroom. Pen and ink drawing by Niklaus Stoecklin, 1954.

Rilke’s study at Muzot Castle. Pen and ink drawing by Niklaus Stoecklin, 1954.

Quelle: retro.seals.ch